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University of British Columbia: The Campus

Here are some impressions of the huge campus of the University of British Columbia, which lies on a promontory at the Pacific Ocean.

• the clocktower and the old main library
• the placa in front of the student union building
• the entrance to the student union building
• students relaxing on a sunny day behind the sub
• near the koerner library
• the new koerner library
• north end of campus: view to ocean and mountains
• the chan centre: one of the student theatres
• my office at the department of computer science

Vancouver is a very beautiful town, surrounded by mountains and the ocean.

• the swimming houses of granville island
• vancouver is surrounded by mountains
• view to the downtown skyline from trimble street
• north vancouver
• vancouver downtown
• on one of the bridges of vancouver
• looking from stanley park to downtown skyline
• looking from jericho beach to downtown skyline
• over the roofs, vancouver downtown
• gastown, the oldest quarter of vancouver: steam clock
• just outside of vancouver: sunset coastline
• just outside of vancouver: daylight coastline

I lived on campus, at Fairview Crescent, a student village, and shared a flat with Grace (from Taiwan), Caroline (from France), and Arem (from Korea). Benjamina (a tree), Pozzo (a poor cat), and Curious George (a monkey) lived also in our apartment.

• fairview, the student village
• fairview, the student village
• fairview, the student village
• the house, in which grace, caroline, arem and i lived
• one of our cd creations
• jojo and grace, my roommate
• jojo and caroline, my roommate
• my roommates caroline and grace
• jojo and caroline cooking
• caroline dancing at the beach
• grace and caroline at the beach, behind them the skyline of vancouver
• grace in front of fairview at a foggy day
• caroline doing a headstand
• caroline with new hair
• mexican party at fairview crescent
• sarah, a neighbour
• sarah at the beach
• caroline, pozzo (our cat), grace and my sister christina
• will, the boyfriend of grace
• the laptop connection: samson, jojo and grace
• caroline and sebastian
• jojo, tintin, grace and our new roommate andrea
• jojo, grace, tintin, and the cheese-cake
• jojo and grace in front of our flat

The film society of the university screens four different movies a week at the Norm, a movie theatre in the Student Union Building.

• the projection booth at the norm theatre
• jojo working at one of the projectors
• our popcorn machine
• group picture at the banquette
• group picture at the 10credits dinner: tintin, jojo, al, robyn, carrie, neil, mike, ginger, matt, ingo, dario, bettina
• group picture at the 10credits dinner: peter, benben, erin, tejus, paul, kirsten, byron

The International House organized a couple of events and orientation sessions for the new international students. Most of teh trips were organized by Scott, our fearless leader (who is not often on the pictures since he took most of them).

• death by chocolate: liz (australia), lara (australia), milla, audrey, mark, christian (germany), barbara (germany), daniel (austria) and lots of others
• having lunch at stevenson
• lara (australia) and mark (new zealand)
• sunset at boat tour
• jojo and scott (canada) canoeing at whistler
• a bunch of people at lighthouse park
• audrey (france) and milla (russia) canoeing
• mark, milla and audrey in a canoe at whistler
• scott, mark, audrey and jojo at lost lake, whistler

Here are some few pictures from a couple of trips we did around Vancouver, as well as from some events at UBC.

• the cypress park on a rainy day
• michael, jojo and milla at cypress park
• a policewoman on a horse at stanley park
• michael, janne, milla and dirk at stanley park
• rainy forests at cypress park
• view from grouse mountain to ubc campus
• milla, christian, barbara and mark at grouse mountain
• david, jojo, michael, milla and janne near cypress park
• day of the long boat: our winning team (pomfret division)
• day of the longboat: the medicine women winner team
• halloween party
• christina, samson and jojo in victoria
• storm the wall: running, cycling, swimming - and climbing
• christina and me at snowy mountain top
• jojo with snowshoes
• christina and jojo at fairview
• victoria, on vancouver island: almost italian flair

On Thanksgiving, I met a bunch of nice people and joined them for a couple of events and trips; here are some pictures of some of them.

• the group picture of the thanksgiving camp (thetis island)
• dorothy
• nigel, dressed as a christmas tree
• mark and sarah, singing
• in front of the christmas tree
• sarah, dancing with a kid
• the group picture of the spring camp (pioneer lodge)

Over the christmas holidays, Michael, Samson, Martin, Charlotte and me did a trip down the west coast along San Francisco, San Diego, and Los Angeles.

• jojo and michael playing soccer on the beach
• sunset at the beach
• skyline of san francisco
• charlotte and jojo in front of the golden gate bridge
• first contact: martin and jojo's first time at the beach
• samson's taking pictures

There might be more pictures online. Take a look at Samson's, Graeme's, Dirk's, Tim's and Michael's pages. I also have all the pictures from the former version of this webpage still on my harddisk (about 25MB), as well as all of Samson's pictures from California (about 450MB).

• to jojo's homepage
• to the faq for exchange darmstadt-vancouver
• to the homepage of university of british columbia
• to the schedule of the filmsoc of the ubc
• to news and events, movie schedules of vancouver